Gen. Stoughton's Arrival in Richmond.

Published: March 19, 1863

From the Richmond Dispatch, March 13.

The prisoners captured by Capt. MOSBY, of FITZHUGH LEE'S command, arrived by the Central cars on Wednesday night, in charge of Lieut. McCLELLAN. Included in the number (the whole amounting to 29) were E.H. STOUGHTON, Brigadier-General of the Second Brigade, CASEY'S Division; A. HARKER, Captain of Company L, Fifth New-York Cavalry; ROBERT WELLBRIENT, a telegraph operator; R. WARDENER, an Austrian Baron; P. PRATT, a private in Company F, Sixteenth Vermont, and Orderly for Gen. STOUGHTON.

The prisoners were taken in custody on the night of March 9, near Fairfax Court-house, by Capt. MOSBY and his command, whose daring and intrepidity in making a successful raid within a few hundred yards of the camp ground of two Abolition brigades, and carrying off, without damage to themselves, the General commanding one of them, deserves the highest praise. Most of the 29 men captured, including Gen. STOUGHTON, are aristocratic specimens of Yankee manhood, with a profusion of gold lace on their coats; were surprised in bed, and were, therefore, incapable of offering any resistance, had they been so inclined.

STOUGHTON occupied for his headquarters & spacious dwelling a few hundred yards from Fairfax Court-house, and deemed himself perfectly secure. When his midnight slumbers were interrupted by Capt. MOSBY, who entered his room and desired him to get up, he deemed him one of his own men on a frolic, and angrily replied that if he did not clear out, he would order him under arrest for an insult to his commanding General. MOSBY asked STOUGHTON he knew "MOSBY, of LEE's cavalry?" "Yes," replied the irate Yankee; "have you caught the _____ _____?" "No," replied MOSBY, "we havn't; but he has caught you, so get up and prepare for a ride." The Yankee General soon had a realizing sense of the surroundings, and prepared to do as MOSBY commanded. He was careful to dress himself for the journey, but he and all of the others complain that time was not allowed them to saddle the horses, and they were compelled to ride twenty-five miles on the bare backs of indifferent steeds, surrounded by Confederate dragoons, over not the smoothest road known.

WARDENER, the old Austrian, declares that the Yankee uniform in which he is encased did not belong to him on the 8th of March at Fairfax Court-house. He says our men were in too much of a hurry to be particular about clothes. When the party arrived in Richmond on Wednesday, the 25 privates were taken to the Libby Prison; but all the persons above named were allowed to retire to the Ballard House for the night. The fact of their being there being made known to the commander of the Libby Prison, at a late hour of the night they were removed from there, much against their will, and placed in the Libby Prison with their comrades. The contrast between the luxurious bed of the Ballard House and the floor of the Libby Prison was marked, indeed, and did not fail to excite dismal forebodings in the minds of the imprisoned Yankees.